Transfer Rumours Summer 2024 transfer thread

Son of a guy I work with is employed at Coventry city working with their Academy. He said some guy from Bayer Leverkusen was outstanding in the 4-0 win.

Puerta building fitness.

 

He’s the one I’m really looking forward to seeing but Hughes as well. If they’re anything like the standard of some of the others we brought in during the last window, we’ll have quite some squad.

 

What is the situation regarding Rushworths loan. Can Brighton recall him if he is not getting game time, are we under any obligation to give him game time, can he request to go back to Brighton.

 

Ok thanks for that information, I would imagine Rushwoth must be getting fed up of being on the bench.

 

Probably due to being new to Stoke and playing under a new manager.

 

I think the plan will still be to get him in eventually.

If that is the case, Pandur's form is becoming a problem for Walter in a sense though, because as soon as we do eventually play Rushworth he'll be under scrutiny and will likely get blamed for not being Pandur as soon as he concedes goals.

 

Unless Pandur gets injured. If it’s an Ingram type unfair dropping for the managers boyfriend then yeah he’ll get pelters.

 

Or could it end up being an Allsop/Rosey situation? I'm hoping we'll bring in Alison next season.

 

If Pandurs form continues as it is I don't see how we can leave him out.Also Pandur is our player and so is Racioppi both on contracts and not loan players.

 

Yep. I just think Rushworth was brought in for a reason and that's his ability to play with his feet which is supposedly crucial to Walter's style. I think he's maybe toned down the extremities of the style in the name of pragmatism in recent weeks but in the longer term it sounds like he still wants to get to playing really high, with the keeper being near the halfway line a lot of the time and very comfortable on the ball.

 

Personally I think the more they play the system, Pandur included the more comfortable they are becoming with it, the last few games it isn't Pandur who is giving it away, his distribution isn't bad at all, the problem we've had is the central defenders not looking up and playing blind passes . For me the biggest moment will be when Hughes comes into the team, a ball playing central defender.

 

Any talk of changing the GK or planing to get rushworth in etc is just silly, we have a top keeper in top form and until that changes ( not just one mistake ) then he should be keeping his spot without question. If his form drops or an injury happens then that's fair enough, but if neither happens he should be staying as #1.

 

Totally agree - but makes Acun's comments about Rushworth sound a bit daft, doesn't it, and just gives people ammo to use against him. He needs to learn when to keep it shut.

 

Honestly when I watched him in the drama’s game he reminded me of Boaz in his prime for us at Spurs. He’s currently totally undroppable.

 

The way it's panning out, the reason he was brought in was to stop our opponents having him.

 

I illuded to it in the m.o.m thread, Pandur was 'Myhillesque', best goalkeeping display I seen since Boaz at Spurs for us

 

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I think Walter should stick with what he is doing now.Having the keeper near the halfway line a lot of the time is asking for trouble.